Unit 10032

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Collapsed wall,Floor remneants 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: N-S=1.60; E-W=1.10; Depth=0.15 

Discussion: To the western side of space 228 plaster was encountered at a higher level than acros the rest of the space. This was overlain by patches of orange sandy clay. The thickness of the plaster and the presence of patchy layers of phtoliths across the underside suggests that this unit may have be wall collapsed down onto building fill 10028. Its presence adjacent to the wall is consistent with this interpretation. The patches of orange sandy clay do not appear to be mud-brick as it is of a completely different texture to the mudbricks in the wall to the east. The sandy clay is more typical of mouldings within buildings but no form was identified to the material.
Changed intergpretation on 14 july - I now think that this layer is a portionoof surviving floor close to the wall and is equvilent to 10041 and 10042 and the orange sandy clay is the remains of a badly truncated bench or other internal feature. 

Recognition: Below fill (10014) an area of plaster and orange sandy clay became visible 

Definition: Clear 

Execution: Mattock 

Condition: Hot 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Mixture of grey white plaster and orange sand clay 

Texture:  

Bedding: compound layered with layer of phytoliths on the under side of the plaster 

Inclusions: None 

Post-depositional Features: None 

Basal Boundary: Ashy building fill 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10034 below: (Click to view the record) 10046, 10030, 10040, 10064 equal to: (Click to view the record) 10041, 10042 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 25 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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